Glen Campbell Quotes

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.

I've always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

I sometimes wonder why I talk about Judaism so much in my act, and the reason is that it's such a huge part of who I am, and I only make fun of stuff that I care about.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.